How to Report a Spammer to AOL
Email services that offer free accounts such as AOL's email service are often targets for spammers; anyone can sign up for an account and begin broadcasting unsolicited messages immediately. If you receive spam from an AOL address, you can delete it. However, AOL also has an abuse address that you can forward the message to for further investigation. Report a message to AOL's abuse department to have the appropriate action taken against the violator.
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Instructions
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Configure your email service or program to display the full headers of the selected message. In Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail and Outlook Express, right-click the message, click "Properties" and then click the "Details" tab.
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Highlight the headers of the message that you want to report. This information includes the address of the mail server the message originated from. Right-click the highlighted headers and select "Copy" to copy the content to the Windows clipboard.
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Click the "Forward" button in your email service or program to forward the message that you want to report.
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Right-click the body of the message and select "Paste" to attach the original headers of the message to the forwarded copy.
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Enter "abuse@aol.com" in the "To:" field of the message.
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Click the "Send" button to send the message to AOL.
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Tips & Warnings
If you are an AOL member and use the AOL Desktop software to read your email, you can click the "Report Spam" button on a spam message to report it to AOL instead.
